Prosecutions always start at the bottom. Prosecutors offer plea deals to get subordinates to testify against their bosses, and the first guy to defect gets the best deal. They will work their way up the food chain.
it's if whether or not you'd hire that programmer with a criminal history over a programmer without one right?
No, because you are never going to have two identical candidates that only differ in that one aspect. There are always going to be a number of pluses and minuses for each candidate. The data indicates that having a criminal record makes very little difference in job performance, so it would make sense for most employers to avoid the time and hassle of running background checks and instead focus on other issues.
My company stopped running background checks years ago when we kept losing good candidates because of the delay in running the checks. By the time we were ready to make an offer, the candidate had already accepted a job elsewhere. The best candidates are always going to get multiple offers. With our new policy, if a candidate does well in their interview, we make a job offer before they leave the building. Many accept the offer on the spot. Our hiring rate, employee quality, and employee retention have all gone up.
it'll get 46% of the vote, the third party 5%, the other party 49% and because most elections are winner-takes-all the 49% wins.
... and then the party that lost because they only got 46% will change their policies to recapture that 5%. Nobody did more to push the Democratic party to the left than Ralph Nader. Nobody did more to push the Republicans to the right than Pat Buchanan. Now, personally, I think both of those were terrible results, because I don't agree with either Ralph or Pat on much of anything. But if you actually believed in what they stood for, then voting for them was the best way to achieve that.
I intend to vote for Gary Johnson in November, not because I hope he will win, but because I think both major parties should adopt policies of greater social tolerance and fiscal sanity, and a good showing (say 5%) by Gary may nudge them in that direction. Since I live in a non-swing state (California) my vote would otherwise be meaningless, so voting 3rd party is the only way for my vote to make a difference.
If that was true and a Democratic victory is inevitable, why doesn't Mr. Moskovitz save his money?
You are assuming that he is donating out of an altruistic belief in "the good of the country". More likely he is trying to buy access and favors. In that case, donating to a "sure thing" makes a lot more sense.
Blacks are far more likely to be criminals because they are discriminated against
If this were true, then blacks that live in predominantly white areas would do worst, since there are plenty of whites around to discriminate against them. They would do best in predominantly black areas, such as East St Louis (98% black), where there are no whites around to push them down.
This, of course, is the EXACT OPPOSITE of reality.
The absolutely stupidest and most implausible technology was the "Genesis Project" that instantaneously caused 4 billion years of evolution by launching one projectile. Oh, and it was created by one person working alone.
Since it's getting increasingly unacceptable to ask about and disqualify candidates who have criminal records...
One reason is that having a criminal record is not correlated with poor performance for most jobs. It may be sensible to run a criminal background check if you are hiring a cashier, but not if you are hiring a carpenter or a programmer.
Besides, with AirBNB the payment is taken before you arrive.
A credit check is a lot more meaningful than just whether people will pay their bills. Otherwise, prospective employers would never run them. A bad credit score often indicates that someone is disorganized, dysfunctional, and likely dishonest. I know people (mostly relatives) with dismal credit scores and I definitely would not like to work with any of them. Credit scores are strongly correlated with employee performance. You also want to look at other factors: The browser they used to submit their resume (avoid hiring MSIE users), bad grammar and spelling, whether they type in single case (all UPPERCASE is the worst, but people that use all lowercase also tend to be poor employees), etc.
The decadence of the people or the decadence of the leadership?
Neither. Decadence did NOT cause the collapse of Rome. That is just propaganda from prudes who don't think we should be enjoying life. When Rome was decadent, they were at their peak of power and prosperity. It was considered a "Golden Age".
There are far more plausible reasons why Rome collapsed:
1. Civil war 2. Lead poisoning 3. Plague 4. The Germans 5. The Huns
Lets see the stats on homes being trashed, by race.
I host on Airbnb, and the biggest problem is not being "trashed", but getting unjustified bad reviews the destroy your reputation and diminish future bookings. I have rented to black people, and they tend to be easy going and tolerant of minor problems that may crop up. I have never had a bad review from any of them. The worse renters are French people. They whine about everything.
Being a member of an ethnicity doesn't mean you can't have inaccurate stereotypes about it.
Nonsense. Discrimination is wrong whether the stereotypes are accurate or not. Blacks are far more likely to be criminals than whites. That is a fact. But it is still wrong to presume that an individual black person is a criminal. Everyone should be treated and respected as an individual.
If the renter can supply a good credit rating it should be safe.
Nobody runs a credit check for a one or two night AirBNB stay. Even if they did, that is not a fix to discrimination, since blacks, on average, have worse credit scores.
Because blacks tend to have worse credit scores, in 2007 the state of Washington banned the use of credit reports in hiring. This of course, made discrimination worse. This is an example of a market for lemons. Since employers could no longer tell "good" black candidates from "bad" black candidates, they played it safe by just hiring fewer blacks overall. Yet another perverse unintended consequence of a regulation.
Everyone talks about Western decadence mirroring ancient rome's path to downfall.
Roman decadence peaked in the 1st century AD, but the downfall didn't happen till nearly 400 years later. By then they were nearly all Christians, who, at least in principle, opposed decadence.
In the year 2169, Bennu has a 1/2700 chance of Earth impact. It is too small to be an ELE, but it would be thousands of times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor.
No. Mussolini claimed that he made the trains run on time, but it was a lie. Investigators have examined the station logs, and the Italian Fascists were no better than their predecessors at getting the trains to run on time.
Of course they knew. Everyone all the way up the chain was profiting from this, including the corporation itself. But "just following orders" does not excuse doing something illegal or even unethical. Everyone involved deserves to be fired, and should never again be allowed to work in banking or finance.
Sri Lanka also did that, nearly a century ago. But it didn't eliminate the disease. There were still residual malaria cases. Those cases were eliminated by tracking down and treating the individual carriers, especially asymptomatic carriers. That is not "sanitation".
This eradication had little to do with "sanitation". There are plenty of diseases spread through poor sanitation, but malaria isn't one of them. It is a vector borne disease spread by mosquitoes. The main strategy was based on identifying, isolating, and treating asymptomatic carriers.
So a missed opportunity to put a big rock into a parking orbit for mining. I wonder what the delta-V is on those bad boys.
Here's how to do it: Put some ion thrusters on the asteroid a few month ahead of time, and then alter the trajectory just enough so that it skims through the upper atmosphere. The friction will slow it down enough to convert the trajectory from a hyperbola to an eccentric elliptical orbit. Then use thrusters to slowly nudge it into a stable circular orbit.
In addition to mining, it can be used as a counterweight for a space elevator.
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Prosecutions always start at the bottom. Prosecutors offer plea deals to get subordinates to testify against their bosses, and the first guy to defect gets the best deal. They will work their way up the food chain.
it's if whether or not you'd hire that programmer with a criminal history over a programmer without one right?
No, because you are never going to have two identical candidates that only differ in that one aspect. There are always going to be a number of pluses and minuses for each candidate. The data indicates that having a criminal record makes very little difference in job performance, so it would make sense for most employers to avoid the time and hassle of running background checks and instead focus on other issues.
My company stopped running background checks years ago when we kept losing good candidates because of the delay in running the checks. By the time we were ready to make an offer, the candidate had already accepted a job elsewhere. The best candidates are always going to get multiple offers. With our new policy, if a candidate does well in their interview, we make a job offer before they leave the building. Many accept the offer on the spot. Our hiring rate, employee quality, and employee retention have all gone up.
it'll get 46% of the vote, the third party 5%, the other party 49% and because most elections are winner-takes-all the 49% wins.
... and then the party that lost because they only got 46% will change their policies to recapture that 5%. Nobody did more to push the Democratic party to the left than Ralph Nader. Nobody did more to push the Republicans to the right than Pat Buchanan. Now, personally, I think both of those were terrible results, because I don't agree with either Ralph or Pat on much of anything. But if you actually believed in what they stood for, then voting for them was the best way to achieve that.
I intend to vote for Gary Johnson in November, not because I hope he will win, but because I think both major parties should adopt policies of greater social tolerance and fiscal sanity, and a good showing (say 5%) by Gary may nudge them in that direction. Since I live in a non-swing state (California) my vote would otherwise be meaningless, so voting 3rd party is the only way for my vote to make a difference.
Mitt Romney was supposed to win the 2012 election. Everyone told him so.
No. The 2012 election turned out exactly where the polls predicted. Anyone who thought Romney was going to win was delusional.
If that was true and a Democratic victory is inevitable, why doesn't Mr. Moskovitz save his money?
You are assuming that he is donating out of an altruistic belief in "the good of the country". More likely he is trying to buy access and favors. In that case, donating to a "sure thing" makes a lot more sense.
Blacks are far more likely to be criminals because they are discriminated against
If this were true, then blacks that live in predominantly white areas would do worst, since there are plenty of whites around to discriminate against them. They would do best in predominantly black areas, such as East St Louis (98% black), where there are no whites around to push them down.
This, of course, is the EXACT OPPOSITE of reality.
The absolutely stupidest and most implausible technology was the "Genesis Project" that instantaneously caused 4 billion years of evolution by launching one projectile. Oh, and it was created by one person working alone.
Since it's getting increasingly unacceptable to ask about and disqualify candidates who have criminal records ...
One reason is that having a criminal record is not correlated with poor performance for most jobs. It may be sensible to run a criminal background check if you are hiring a cashier, but not if you are hiring a carpenter or a programmer.
Besides, with AirBNB the payment is taken before you arrive.
A credit check is a lot more meaningful than just whether people will pay their bills. Otherwise, prospective employers would never run them. A bad credit score often indicates that someone is disorganized, dysfunctional, and likely dishonest. I know people (mostly relatives) with dismal credit scores and I definitely would not like to work with any of them. Credit scores are strongly correlated with employee performance. You also want to look at other factors: The browser they used to submit their resume (avoid hiring MSIE users), bad grammar and spelling, whether they type in single case (all UPPERCASE is the worst, but people that use all lowercase also tend to be poor employees), etc.
The decadence of the people or the decadence of the leadership?
Neither. Decadence did NOT cause the collapse of Rome. That is just propaganda from prudes who don't think we should be enjoying life. When Rome was decadent, they were at their peak of power and prosperity. It was considered a "Golden Age".
There are far more plausible reasons why Rome collapsed:
1. Civil war
2. Lead poisoning
3. Plague
4. The Germans
5. The Huns
How do you reconcile this statement with renting to people you don't know?
The way I do it is to look at their reviews from previous hosts. If their reviews are good, then race is irrelevant.
Lets see the stats on homes being trashed, by race.
I host on Airbnb, and the biggest problem is not being "trashed", but getting unjustified bad reviews the destroy your reputation and diminish future bookings. I have rented to black people, and they tend to be easy going and tolerant of minor problems that may crop up. I have never had a bad review from any of them. The worse renters are French people. They whine about everything.
Being a member of an ethnicity doesn't mean you can't have inaccurate stereotypes about it.
Nonsense. Discrimination is wrong whether the stereotypes are accurate or not. Blacks are far more likely to be criminals than whites. That is a fact. But it is still wrong to presume that an individual black person is a criminal. Everyone should be treated and respected as an individual.
If the renter can supply a good credit rating it should be safe.
Nobody runs a credit check for a one or two night AirBNB stay. Even if they did, that is not a fix to discrimination, since blacks, on average, have worse credit scores.
Because blacks tend to have worse credit scores, in 2007 the state of Washington banned the use of credit reports in hiring. This of course, made discrimination worse. This is an example of a market for lemons. Since employers could no longer tell "good" black candidates from "bad" black candidates, they played it safe by just hiring fewer blacks overall. Yet another perverse unintended consequence of a regulation.
the liability concerns will never be overcome on these drone delivery stories.
Why would the liability insurance on a 4 kg drone be more than that on a 2 ton delivery van driven by a teenager?
Everyone talks about Western decadence mirroring ancient rome's path to downfall.
Roman decadence peaked in the 1st century AD, but the downfall didn't happen till nearly 400 years later. By then they were nearly all Christians, who, at least in principle, opposed decadence.
In the year 2169, Bennu has a 1/2700 chance of Earth impact. It is too small to be an ELE, but it would be thousands of times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor.
the researcher get jail time.
Just because a vandal calls himself a "researcher" doesn't mean he is one.
Politicians are jerks.
So are vandals.
You should never, ever write code that allows SQL injections. It's negligent.
Then why do nearly all SQL libraries enable injections? Why aren't parameterized queries required? Is there any reason not to use them?
That was Mussolini.
No. Mussolini claimed that he made the trains run on time, but it was a lie. Investigators have examined the station logs, and the Italian Fascists were no better than their predecessors at getting the trains to run on time.
Who says they didn't?
Of course they knew. Everyone all the way up the chain was profiting from this, including the corporation itself. But "just following orders" does not excuse doing something illegal or even unethical. Everyone involved deserves to be fired, and should never again be allowed to work in banking or finance.
In the US, seems to have involved mostly draining swamps and eliminating standing water.
Sri Lanka also did that, nearly a century ago. But it didn't eliminate the disease. There were still residual malaria cases. Those cases were eliminated by tracking down and treating the individual carriers, especially asymptomatic carriers. That is not "sanitation".
So once again, sanitation eliminates disease.
This eradication had little to do with "sanitation". There are plenty of diseases spread through poor sanitation, but malaria isn't one of them. It is a vector borne disease spread by mosquitoes. The main strategy was based on identifying, isolating, and treating asymptomatic carriers.
And how is hydroelectric renewable? Can they make it rain?
I have been to Costa Rica. It rains everyday.
So a missed opportunity to put a big rock into a parking orbit for mining. I wonder what the delta-V is on those bad boys.
Here's how to do it: Put some ion thrusters on the asteroid a few month ahead of time, and then alter the trajectory just enough so that it skims through the upper atmosphere. The friction will slow it down enough to convert the trajectory from a hyperbola to an eccentric elliptical orbit. Then use thrusters to slowly nudge it into a stable circular orbit.
In addition to mining, it can be used as a counterweight for a space elevator.